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HAPPY BIRTHDAY KILLER!

SteveBridge
SteveBridge Posts: 18
in General Charlton
HALESY is 65 today - hope he has a Killer birthday! Raise a glass to Derek tonight!
This picture (taken in 1994 inside the dressing room at Welling United after a Charlton Vets game) is in my book which is still available for that late Christmas present! The photographic book 'Charlton Athletic In Pictures 1975-2015' can be bought at a sale price of £9, including P&P.
The A4 sized landscape softback book (128 pages, 123 pictures) can be previewed and ordered online or by post at http://www.youralbumonline.co.uk/sbridge.htm
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  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,226
    Happy birthday to my favourite player of all time.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,493
    State pension time !!! or is it under the 'new rules' ? .. M H R to a man who deserves the title .. L E G E N D
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,707
    stonemuse said:

    Happy birthday to my favourite player of all time.

    same here.
    He even spoke to me once..
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,888
    168 goals for Charlton.
    I doubt that will ever get beat.
    My all-time favourite Charlton player.
    Absolute legend
    Happy birthday killer
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    Happy Birthday Derek.

    Used to love those Friday night home games at the Valley in the 1970's, he always seemed to score!
  • alan dugdale
    alan dugdale Posts: 3,095
    Absolute Charlton legend. Like Blackpool 72, Killer's also my all time favourite Charlton player.

    So many memories and goals from a happier era at the club.

    Happy 65th Killer !
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,451
    Happy Birthday Killer. My all time greatest player.

    Have a great day go blast a few cats for me!
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,719
    Lincsaddick said:

    State pension time !!! or is it under the 'new rules' ? .. M H R to a man who deserves the title .. L E G E N D

    New rules for a man.

    https://www.gov.uk/new-state-pension

  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,493
    edited December 2016
    xx
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,493
    edited December 2016
    LenGlover said:

    Lincsaddick said:

    State pension time !!! or is it under the 'new rules' ? .. M H R to a man who deserves the title .. L E G E N D

    New rules for a man.

    https://www.gov.uk/new-state-pension

    YES .. he gets if from today .. I like how the calculator D O B goes as far back as 1894 .. almost far back enough for you to check your entitlement Len (errrr jesting lol)


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  • captainbob
    captainbob Posts: 962
    When Derek Hales received the ball with only the keeper to beat, I always felt confident that he would score because he usually did. I have rarely had that confidence since...perhaps Mendonca and Bent but no one else.

    Is it true that Killer once emerged from the tunnel (before a game) with a cigarette and stubbed it out by the pitch or have I imagined that?
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    Happy Birthday Killer
    Weather you were scoring great goals or sorting someone out including Flash always great entertainment
  • E_cafc
    E_cafc Posts: 2,617
    Happy Birthday Derek Killer Hales. To the fans you were a hero then and you are a hero now. That takes some doing. I can still remember and visualise many of the goals you scored. There were lots of special ones, that's for sure.
  • Rock Spectacle
    Rock Spectacle Posts: 1,459
    Not imagined Captainbob, he would stub a fag out when he got out of his car before every home game as witnessed by an enthusiastic autograph hunter outside the players entrance - and he signed my book every time - happy birthday Killer.
  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,401
    Even at my young age, he became unforgettable as a player, and my first Charlton hero.
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,326
    I share the same birthday as a bona fide, Addick to the bone, legend! Did not know this, now life is complete.

    Birthday salutations Killer!
  • 56yearsofdreams
    56yearsofdreams Posts: 448
    A true Legend . Happy Birthday Killer
  • andynelson
    andynelson Posts: 1,951
    Happy Birthday Killer. No.1 Charlton legend. Ever.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,970
    My favourite player of all time - Happy Birthday Killer
  • CyrilDavies
    CyrilDavies Posts: 855
    Happy Birthday Killer. .Hope that you have had a great day.. .

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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,437
    Happy birthday Killer, the world of football was a very different one back then, but being able to stick the ball in the back of the net will always be a priceless attribute!
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,174
    The greatest Charlton player ever!
    Happy Birthday Killer
    I wonder if he fancys a run out on Saturday?
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0
    Happy Birthday Killer!!
    Deadliest striker I've seen for Charlton bar none.
  • killer kish
    killer kish Posts: 2,019
    A true Charlton legend
    Happy Birthday Killer
  • masicat
    masicat Posts: 5,017
    He never missed when going clear
    He never ever fails
    If God was ever played up front
    His name was Derek Hales
  • redbuttle
    redbuttle Posts: 2,022
    Happy birthday. You were (and still are) my hero and favourite ever Charlton player..
  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,923
    Away at Fulham, fourth round of the Cup. Killer on the edge of the box. Back to goal. And sent this delicious arc over his shoulder. Buried in the onion-bag.

    Ten minutes later, Killer got into a barney on the half-way line. Red Card! Rare in those days. Troops off to the Cottage, in our corner on the open terrace. Fulham fans hurling coins. Us, jumping and down: mad and ecstatic. 2-1. Through to the fifth round.

    Was it that season, or the next? 1980-81. Away at Oxford, old Headington Road ground: ramshackle sheds and barns. Our 17-game unbeaten run. Peasants in the scratching-shed pipe up: “Derek Hales is a Wanker, Derek Hales is a Wanker, La-La, La La. La-La, La La.”

    And Killer on the half-way line. Didn't even look up. Swivelled and hammered. Ball shuddered the crossbar. That shut those bastards up!

    Until very recently, on a brick wall in Greenwich, behind a palimpsest of torn posters, there was a painted fact from the Seventies:

    KILLER HALES IS GOD



  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,156
    edited December 2016
    Heart of a Lion.
    Never bottled a one-on-one.
    I've seen more technically gifted players wear the shirt over the last 55 years, but Killer is my favourite.
    He made me proud to call myself an Addick.
    Happy Birthday Derek
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,462
    Happy birthday Killer. My favourite-ever Charlton player. By miles.
  • Rock Spectacle
    Rock Spectacle Posts: 1,459
    It was indeed that season, stayed on the field in the Cup game, sent off in the League game later in the season when the coins flew, stand to be corrected. Scored IMHO his best goal ever away to Chesterfield that season, the Hull one still Paddy's. Finish OK though...:)

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